193. The discovery of the fossil was ______ and ______ , surprising scientists and undermining accepted theories about plant distribution.
A. exhilarating, banal
B. shocking, prophetic
C. startling, revolutionary
D. appalling, groundbreaking
E. unanticipated, irrelevant
194. Citing the ______ of the Asian American community, the scholar argued that Asian Americans constituted the region's fastest-growing minority population.
A. digression
B. proximity
C. expansion
D. stabilization
E. correlation